Is it really class envy?
Feb. 15th, 2010 07:51 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
bloodsong1Or is it speculation on a paradigm shift?
Wolf and I are in agreement that we don't want a McMansion. We're also in agreement that we're not really sure we want a big, huge house. There are advantages, like taking individual rooms to convert into our various hearts' desires and having a place for Zahde to move into so she doesn't have to worry about rent and other such bills, as long as she's willing to watch the kiddos once in a while. And we both have separate properties we lust after. But that feels more like lusting after a movie star. Forever out of reach, but fun to dream about.
Our current house is perfectly satisfactory. We're not going to have more children, especially after what was discovered during the C-section. Monies coming in from the Paradigm Shift would be put to better use in retirement and college funds, although Wolf has informed me he simply MUST have a Mako Corvette. *chuckle*
Stil...
I bought two bottles of Goose Watch wine tonight, after having the idea of greeting my mother with a glass of something nice and calming so she can relax after her flight. I called and confirmed we are related by wine taste, we prefer sweet reds. I ended up with Rose of Isabella, a wonderful white Zinfandel and Diamond, Goose Watch's signature white, as Wolf prefers drier wines.
Would I have thought of such a gesture if I hadn't spent three hours Saturday night toeing the line of the millionaire class? I honestly don't know.
I know I want her to be proud of me, which is, well, strange, I guess. She was proud of me as a child, her model student, until we started homeschooling and I was told to teach myself. She was proud of me having IDK, even though we continue to butt heads about parenting techniques. She was proud of me getting my college degree. IS she still proud of me, her Pagan daughter who moved halfway across the country for the betterment of her own children? Who bought a house several years after her brother? Who's had to work multiple jobs instead of getting into a union?
Maybe I'm expecting too much.
Wolf and I are in agreement that we don't want a McMansion. We're also in agreement that we're not really sure we want a big, huge house. There are advantages, like taking individual rooms to convert into our various hearts' desires and having a place for Zahde to move into so she doesn't have to worry about rent and other such bills, as long as she's willing to watch the kiddos once in a while. And we both have separate properties we lust after. But that feels more like lusting after a movie star. Forever out of reach, but fun to dream about.
Our current house is perfectly satisfactory. We're not going to have more children, especially after what was discovered during the C-section. Monies coming in from the Paradigm Shift would be put to better use in retirement and college funds, although Wolf has informed me he simply MUST have a Mako Corvette. *chuckle*
Stil...
I bought two bottles of Goose Watch wine tonight, after having the idea of greeting my mother with a glass of something nice and calming so she can relax after her flight. I called and confirmed we are related by wine taste, we prefer sweet reds. I ended up with Rose of Isabella, a wonderful white Zinfandel and Diamond, Goose Watch's signature white, as Wolf prefers drier wines.
Would I have thought of such a gesture if I hadn't spent three hours Saturday night toeing the line of the millionaire class? I honestly don't know.
I know I want her to be proud of me, which is, well, strange, I guess. She was proud of me as a child, her model student, until we started homeschooling and I was told to teach myself. She was proud of me having IDK, even though we continue to butt heads about parenting techniques. She was proud of me getting my college degree. IS she still proud of me, her Pagan daughter who moved halfway across the country for the betterment of her own children? Who bought a house several years after her brother? Who's had to work multiple jobs instead of getting into a union?
Maybe I'm expecting too much.
